4 OCTOBER 1921

To Comrade Kiselev, Chairman of the Small Council of People's Commissars.

4 October 1921

The assignment given on 30 September to the Small Council of People's Commissars by the Council of Labour and Defence (see minutes of the Council of Labour and Defence No. 254, item 9),¹ has still not been executed. The question has not even been heard yet and does not appear on the agenda.

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# NOTES TO N. P. GORBUNOV
[27 September 1921]

Comrade Gorbunov!

1) Get in touch with the author (he is in Petrograd; find out his address through Kalinin or have him called) when he arrives here.

2) Ask him whether he will give an article to Pravda.

3) If he cannot, it is necessary to make an extract from this letter (about the electric plough) and send it to Pravda.

4) Find him the materials he has requested (officially request them from Osinsky, at the Main Agricultural Economy Administration and other institutions).

5) By the way. See Stunkel and check (more businesslike, more carefully) how matters are progressing with the electric ploughs.

Lenin.

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# TO COMRADE N. P. GORBUNOV
10 November 1921

Workers and employees of the Bryansk factory have manufactured 7 electric ploughs. By 1 January 1922 they will manufacture 20.

The difficulties in this were extraordinarily great.

Therefore it is necessary to give special rewards to up to 70 workers and employees. This is confirmed by the director of the Bryansk factory, Comrade Zheltuv.

I request that the question be put before the Council of Labour and Defence tomorrow, having discussed together with Comrade Zheltuv the forms of reward (Order of the Labour Banner; monetary and material compensation).

Secretary of the Council of Labour and Defence B. Ulyanov (Lenin).